Back Cover
Image by Gamma-Ray Productions
Many more people on the back cover...I find that it's better than the front cover due to the lack of black leaking on to any of the images.
Many different people from everywhere that meant something to me...what's even more ridiculous is some of the connections (i.e., my uncle in the top left corner, it turns out, was taught by the teacher next to Charlie Brown, middle right, in the 80s. The teacher was my graphic design teacher and also apparently my uncle's art teacher).
It's pretty cool though.
Greek riots, day #14: Life & strife inspire art
Image by 0neiros
What was in the beggining an angry display of collective emotion against police brutality in Greece, tainted by random violence & opportunism, is slowly becoming a "movement"in recent days; which is to say, an ad hoc collective of protesters about a variety of social ills from all walks of life, now become international with solidarity actions taking place all over the globe. In major cities around Greece, where violence held sway earlier, artists emerged in recent days to contribute poetry, music performances & graphic designs to the movement.
The high point of the Thessaloniki part of the movement was a single day squat at the prestigious headquarters of the International Film Festival, organized by students of the Theater School & anarchists as an alternative cultural event, complete with documentaries focused on various aspects of globalization & open discussions.
Aside from the abscence of the glamour crowd, it was hard to tell this wasn't an official event organized by the Festival. Squatters took over the functioning of most of the building, operated the projectors & the coffeeshop, cordoned off limits areas, hung no smoking notices & generally treated the Olympion with the deserved respect.
(Which figures, really, as the crowds participating in the squat and thronging the lobby & screenings were, intrinsically, the core audience of the Festival; the alternative culture youth of the city, that put up with a 40% price hike on tickets to attend the 49th Festival last November -a mediocre event at best- and harassed by CYA security at every turn.)
PS: Sadly, as paranoia towards anybody with a camera at those kinds of events is still looming, I was unable to take any decent photos (with people in them) of what was essentially a cultural get together
Greek riots, day #14: Life & strife inspire art
Image by 0neiros
What was in the beggining an angry display of collective emotion against police brutality in Greece, tainted by random violence & opportunism, is slowly becoming a "movement"in recent days; which is to say, an ad hoc collective of protesters about a variety of social ills from all walks of life, now become international with solidarity actions taking place all over the globe. In major cities around Greece, where violence held sway earlier, artists emerged in recent days to contribute poetry, music performances & graphic designs to the movement.
The high point of the Thessaloniki part of the movement was a single day squat at the prestigious headquarters of the International Film Festival, organized by students of the Theater School & anarchists as an alternative cultural event, complete with documentaries focused on various aspects of globalization & open discussions.
Aside from the abscence of the glamour crowd, it was hard to tell this wasn't an official event organized by the Festival. Squatters took over the functioning of most of the building, operated the projectors & the coffeeshop, cordoned off limits areas, hung no smoking notices & generally treated the Olympion with the deserved respect.
(Which figures, really, as the crowds participating in the squat and thronging the lobby & screenings were, intrinsically, the core audience of the Festival; the alternative culture youth of the city, that put up with a 40% price hike on tickets to attend the 49th Festival last November -a mediocre event at best- and harassed by CYA security at every turn.)
PS: Sadly, as paranoia towards anybody with a camera at those kinds of events is still looming, I was unable to take any decent photos (with people in them) of what was essentially a cultural get together
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